Fortan’s space mission ends ten years later (for him) and one hundred years later (for everyone else). He expects changes when he returns. He doesn’t expect to get arrested upon landing. He really doesn’t expect all the charges for back family support, considering he had no child or wife or girlfriend when he left. Will he go to prison for a crime he hasn’t committed?

Area 52. They build and develop a new space program. They operate the T.I.N. Men, massive robots to build the bases on Earth's moon and beyond to make those great leaps for all humankind.
Software engineer, Will Arnett is recruited to join the T.I.N. Men project. He soon discovers there are those who oppose them.
Join Will for the greatest adventure in history.

Debney just wanted to make a quick treasure run to collect some alien tech, make a quick profit and get home to Melissa. When one of his crew activates a field, it looks like none of them are getting home at all. A Barris Space universe side-story by Sean Monaghan, author of The Wreck of the Emerald Sky.

A look in the lives of a supervillain who's been slightly less villainous lately and her former nemesis that's been hanging around to keep an eye on her. When you've got powers the like of which the world has never seen, it's natural to want to enjoy them a little. And when you have a mad scientist on the payroll, sometimes you just want to play around with the resulting technology before dinner.

Percentages. Chances. Opportunities. Before Bryan marries Jess, he needs to know what kind of children they’ll have. Fortunately, tests exist for that. The results have arrived, and now they must choose: babies, percentages, or each other?

The librarian's dead. It looks like the murderer is a space traveler who's accidently returned to the moon after 60,000 years. Saskia's been training to be the new librarian, but she was never trained for this. A science fiction novelette from the author of The Wreck of the Emerald Sky.

Vision Machine is the story of how Mankind received the most extraordinary gift of technology that will change our perception of history forever. Vision Machine gives each of us what we’ve always wanted: An eye witness view into the past--as it actually happened without bias, embellishment or editing. Imagine the religious, criminal and astronomical implications...

Police Captain Mike Russell has more than thieves, killers, and miscellaneous common criminals to worry about, he's got Pulses. Superpowered vigilantes, or worse, criminals, Pulses transformed society, but not for the better.
After two disastrous wars trying to control them, Capt. Russell finds himself standing on the brink of a possible Third Pulse and disaster.

This is a story of a kid and an alien from outer space written by HY Rabib following a bengali story named Jadokor by Humayun Ahmed. In this story a boy name Rob who reads in 8th grade gets very poor mark in maths and hides himself in bushes and there he meets a strange man actually alien who inspires him to change his thoughts.............Read it to see details......

No-one expects to find alien life in NGC 2419. But when the first probes encounter a dirty, industrial planet somewhere no human is known to have been, the race is on to be the first to welcome its inhabitants into the galactic community. Will it be two poker-playing starships, or The Future, for whom pretension is a vocation, not just a way of life?
A 5,500 word science fiction short story.

Aurora Award Finalist story from a multi-award winning author.
A programmer's virtual girlfriend becomes a little too real after he discovers a bug in the world's most popular software--a bug that just may mean the end of the world as we know it.